Vocab 1.Hegira – any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place 2.Unabated – with undiminished force, power, or vigor 3.Bajada – an alluvial plain formed at the base of a mountain by the coalescing of several alluvial fans 4.Burro – a small donkey, esp. one used as a pack animal in the southwestern U.S. 5.Sinew – the source of strength, power, or vigor 6.Recondite – beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding 7.Asceticism – the doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, self-mortification, and the like 8.Pseudoliterary –false reading 9.Fulminate – to explode with a loud noise; detonate 10.Meticulously – taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough 11.Grubstake – provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries 12.Titillate – to excite or arouse agreeably 13.Bravado – a pretentious, swaggering display of courage 14.Plaintive – expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful 15.Incendiary – used or adapted for setting property on fire 16.Papar – resident in parts of Iceland; father or pope 17.Insolence – contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech 18.Bereavement – to deprive and make desolate, esp. by death 19.Paradoxically – a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth 20.Meringue - a pastry or pastry shell made by baking such a mixture, sometimes filled with fruit, whipped cream, etc
1. Hegira – any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place
2. Unabated – with undiminished force, power, or vigor
3. Bajada – an alluvial plain formed at the base of a mountain by the coalescing of several alluvial fans
4. Burro – a small donkey, esp. one used as a pack animal in the southwestern U.S.
5. Sinew – the source of strength, power, or vigor
6. Recondite – beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding
7. Asceticism – the doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, self-mortification, and the like
8. Pseudoliterary –false reading
9. Fulminate – to explode with a loud noise; detonate
10. Meticulously – taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
11. Grubstake – provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries
12. Titillate – to excite or arouse agreeably
13. Bravado – a pretentious, swaggering display of courage
14. Plaintive – expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful
15. Incendiary – used or adapted for setting property on fire
16. Papar – resident in parts of Iceland; father or pope
17. Insolence – contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech
18. Bereavement – to deprive and make desolate, esp. by death
19. Paradoxically – a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
20. Meringue - a pastry or pastry shell made by baking such a mixture, sometimes filled with fruit, whipped cream, etc